MalteKBH

Your submission at Articles for creation: GAME (September 15)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by GeneralizationsAreBad was: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.

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GAB^gab 19:08, 15 September 2016 (UTC)

Hello! MalteKBH, I noticed your article was declined at Articles for Creation, and that can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! GABgab 19:08, 15 September 2016 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: GAME (September 24)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Abdullah Alam was: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.

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Abdullah Alam (talk) 13:22, 24 September 2016 (UTC)

Reply

Hi, thanks for message. Please add your messages to the bottom of the talk page, or they may be overlooked. I deleted your article because

• it did not provide adequate independent verifiable sources to enable us to verify the facts and show that it meets the notability guidelines. Sources that are not acceptable include those linked to the NGO, social media, YouTube and other sites that can be self-edited, blogs, websites of unknown or non-reliable provenance, and sites that are just reporting what the NGO claims or interviewing its management. Many of your refs do not meet the criteria. Even the text quoted from NGO advisor appears to be written by your organisation. If that's not the case, it's not clear who did write it and there are no sources to verify anything in that text. You should format your references using <ref>[url description]</ref> rather than bare urls.
• You give few facts to support notability, to show notability you need hard verifiable facts such as the number of employees, income or expenditure, all you tell us is what your organisation does, no indication of how it gets its money or spends it.
• it was written in a promotional tone. Articles must be neutral and encyclopaedic.

• You have "International Visions", which is just promoting the organisation's ambitions
• You have a largely unsourced Awards section, but no criticism of your NGO
• Examples of unsourced claims presented as fact include: The ambition is to overcome the inequal access to sports... They are seen as role models... considered being a crucial part of the local anchoring... according to GAME - is needed to create lasting social change.

• the article was a copyright violation. Copyrighted text is not allowed in Wikipedia, as outlined in this policy. That applies even to pages created by you or your organisation, unless they state clearly and explicitly that the text is public domain. Much of the text is copied from NGOadvisor © Copyright NGO Advisor 2016, or in translation from the GAME website, which is not explicitly PD (translations of copyright material are still copyright) There are ways to donate copyrighted text to Wikipedia, as described here; please note that simply asserting on the talk page that you are the owner of the copyright, or you have permission to use the text, isn't sufficient.
• Your edits indicate that you have an obvious conflict of interest when it comes to editing articles about this subject. If, after reading the information about notability linked above, you still believe that your organisation is notable enough for a Wikipedia article (and that there is significant coverage in reliable, independent secondary sources), you could, if you wish, post a request at Wikipedia:Requested articles for the article to be created. See also Wikipedia:Best practices for editors with conflicts of interest.
• If you work directly or indirectly for the NGO, or otherwise are acting on its behalf, you are very strongly discouraged from attempting to write an article at all. Regardless, if you are paid directly or indirectly by the NGO you are writing about, you are required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:MalteKBH. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=MalteKBH|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. If you are being compensated, please provide the required disclosure. Note that editing with a COI is discouraged, but permitted as long as it is declared. Concealing a COI can lead to a block. Please do not edit further until you respond to this message.

Jimfbleak - talk to me? 11:36, 15 November 2016 (UTC)